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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Protocols - SMB performance statistics for shares

    EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Efficient Deletion of Fileset backup data based on mmBackup per Fileset

    We are running multi-petabyte Scale file systems in our HPC environment. User data is organized per project using independent filesets. The backup of user data is performed using mmBackup per fileset. For new projects, a new fileset is created. Wh...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    HA GUI synchronization for notification events

    Changes to notification events are currently not synchronized to secondary GUI node in an HA GUI configuration. This lead to the problem, that I have to perform the "Mark as read" function for several GUI events at each GUI node separately, to get...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

    The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale ECE - Support 512 storage nodes in a single ECE cluster

    With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our customers are expecting a single GPFS cluster and file system to scale to a larger size. We need a single GPFS cluster to surpass the current limit of 256 storage nodes, reaching...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    extend number of independent filesets

    For a file system used in a large research facility with a capacity beyond 20 PB, we would like to generate at least 5000 independent filesets for projects being active in processing and generating data. We expect initially a demand for 5000 indep...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Role Based Encryption

    Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    REST API - Quotas for Users and Groups

    Create a REST API to show User and Group quotas. Currently, the only quotas are Filesystems and Filesets - If users have a homedir set to a fileset you can get their quota, however if user or group quotas are set they cannot be retrieved.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CES IP - group failover, within the locality, when using a stretched cluster

    Client in a active-active Spectrum Scale stretched cluster using protocol nodes. They have 6 protocol nodes in total. Nowadays, in case of 1 node failure, the CES IP can be failover to any nodes, either in the same site or to the remote site. This...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

    This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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